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Mr. Ironside
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“If you're trapped in the dream of the Other, you're fucked.”
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“Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is christianized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something is taken.”
― Self-Reliance and Other Essays
― Self-Reliance and Other Essays
“Conformism and non-conformism are symmetrical expressions of a lack of originality.”
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“Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.”
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“Is not all the stupid chatter of most of our newspapers the babble of fools who suffer from the fixed idea of morality, legality, christianity and so forth, and only seem to go about free because the madhouse in which they walk takes in so broad a space?”
― The Ego and His Own: The Case of the Individual Against Authority
― The Ego and His Own: The Case of the Individual Against Authority
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